Vladimir Putin is rattling sabres with a veiled threat to spark a new Cuban Missile Crisis by suggesting he could deploy weapons of mass destruction globally to needle the West, experts have sounded the alarm.
On Wednesday, the Russian leader hinted at arming Western adversaries in response to NATO allies supplying Ukraine with arms that could reach Russian soil.
Putin told reporters: “If they consider it possible to deliver such weapons to the combat zone to launch strikes on our territory and create problems for us, why don’t we have the right to supply weapons of the same type to some regions of the world where they can be used to launch strikes on sensitive facilities of the countries that do it to Russia? We will think about it.”
Defence guru Nicholas Drummond conveyed to the Express. his belief that Putin’s words echo the perilous brinkmanship of the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which nearly tipped the world into nuclear war.
Drummond explained: “He is threatening a sort of Cuban Missile Crisis 2 where you have tactical cruise missiles, nuclear weapons, and weapons of mass destruction placed in places where we would not like them.”
🇷🇺PUTIN: HEY, BIDEN… GUESS WHAT?
🇷🇺RUSSIAN NAVY: WE ARE COMING SOON TO THE CARIBBEAN NEAR YOU
Russia is set to hold naval exercises in the Caribbean this summer, with port calls in Cuba (400 miles from the U.S) and Venezuela.
This move comes as a response to the US… https://t.co/2axf2KuBGy pic.twitter.com/XbJsZKF8IO
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